Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you..

Age, like distance lends a double charm..

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it..

Diplomacy is living in state..

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning..

Diplomacy: lying in state..

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings..

Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone..

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember..

Many are called but few get up..

I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way, And every Bulrush on the river bank A Cat-Tail from some lovely C….

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from..

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous..

The Elf and the Dormouse UNDER a toadstool crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain to shelter himself. Under the toadstool, sound asleep, Sat a big Dormouse….

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet..

A man is known by the silence he keeps..

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure..

Only the young die good..

Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter..

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish..

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,' I heard….